Initiatives

Gospel Life Bible Church Launches in Boise Metro Area

Nampa, Idaho, is home to the newest FEC church, Gospel Life Bible Church. As a part of the Boise Metro Area, Nampa rests in a valley that locals call Treasure Valley. The area has become one of the fastest growing areas in the United States, and Boise is the third largest city in the Pacific [...]

Harvest Bible Church Provides a Home for Local Food Bank

The people of Harvest Bible Church in Ellsworth, Kansas, want to be a part of change in their community and transformed lives. One way they have engaged the Ellsworth community is hosting the local food bank in their building. The church’s partnership with the community food bank goes back seven years, and they have hosted [...]

2022 FEC Conference Emphasizes Unity in Mission

In 2022, hot-button issues have divided the U.S. population and the world at large--issues like politics, racial strife, covid policies, and war. Churches have felt the impact, too; however, churches also represent a unique place for unity around a common mission despite other differences. Within the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (FEC) a diverse group of [...]

King’s Cross Defiance Partners with African Church Planting Initiative

In April, Pastor Sam Andres traveled to Malawi to meet African leaders who are on the forefront of a church-planting movement, the African Church Planting Initiative (ACPI). He traveled to Malawi with Pastor Matt Boyers, Crossroads Church in Wauseon, and Hal Lehman, FEC Cross-Cultural Church Multiplication Director, to strengthen church partnerships and train church planters [...]

Fort Wayne Burmese Church Forms Partnership with FEC

In addition to FEC’s global footprint throughout the world, recently the main office in northeast Fort Wayne became a temporary home for Zo Christian Church, a Burmese church. After an FEC church member connected Zo Christian Church with the FEC office, the two ministries discovered many shared similarities.  The result was that the Zo Christian [...]

Denver Church Plant Seeks Location & Vision for Ministry

The process of planting a new church takes time and planning. For Jerrod and Maggie Keith and their team, the time has been used to help them envision the church that God has called them to plant on Denver’s east side. In early 2019, Jerrod and Maggie left the Denver church where they served bi-vocationally [...]

Redeemer Community Church Celebrates Two Years

A group of Illinois pastors from different denominations have been working together to plant new churches in rural communities. Three of those churches joined together to plant Redeemer Community Church in Minonk, Illinois. Now, at two years old, Redeemer Community Church has endured a pandemic and moved into the historic downtown in Minonk. Redeemer Community [...]

Kingdom Collective Celebrates Its First Year in Style

In November, the people who planted Kingdom Collective came together to celebrate what God has been doing this year. Volunteers and staff dressed up and shared a catered meal to highlight the occasion. Launched on November 7, 2020, Kingdom Collective, Fort Wayne, desires to reach people who aren’t currently being reached by a church. Their [...]

Kansas Pastor Offers Life Coaching Principles in New Book

In 2012, Grace Crossing, Moundridge, Kansas, was launched with a vision to reach people who were disconnected to church. That passion fuels the ministry of Grace Crossing, and it motivates Pastor Jason Rains to reach out to people who might not come to his church. That motivation inspired him to launch JR Coaching in 2017, [...]

Forty Years of Ministry in Western Africa

Once unreached by the good news about Jesus Christ, the Yalunka people of western Mali (West Africa) are now sharing about Jesus among their own people in their own language. FEC’s West Africa Initiative to the Yalunka stretches over a decade, and links the growing Evangelical Mennonite Church (EMC) in Burkina Faso with this new [...]